|SI (&\w (ttrilwjum |§L Published Semi-Weekly By The Collegian Staff TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER- 13, 1945 PENNSYLVANIA PRICE FHT ASTP Sponsors Semi - Formal Army Band To Play For 'Farewell Dance i The ASTP All-College semi formal dance to foe held at Re creation Hall from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Saturday will foe the Army’s farewell to the College. The unit is expected to leave the College near the end of the fall semester. . Corsages will be presented to the first 20 coeds arriving at the dance. No one will be admitted without tickets, which may be ob tained at Student Union free of charge any time this week. Money in the company fund, which is used for the recreation of the ASTP unit, will cover all expens es so that there will be no neces sity for charging, admission. 'Pvts. Ort Hicks and Jack Jes sel will lead the ASTP orchestra, starting and ending the dance with their theme “Mood Indigo.” ; Members of the orehestra in clude Pvts. Ort Hides, piano; Jack Jessel, drums; Thomas Gay, Carl Wagner and Will Haines, trum pets; Sol Blatt, James Fowe, Don ald Morthlava, Ronald S'hakely and Robert Hermann, saxophones; Norbert Schalk, guitar; David Wagner, bass-. The A'STP came to the College in May, 1943. Since that time over 300. men in the unit have ■been sent to join the 95th Divis ion. Selected groups .were sent to Oak Ridge, Tenn., to perform se cxet.-Work ; on' the atomic'bomb, -In October, 1943, ' the College unit reached, its maximum strength of 1050 men. Symphony Group Includes 62 College Symphony- ; Orchestra, comprised. of 62 members; met last night iri Carnegie Hair for the semester’s. , first . rehearsal. . All students listed below are asked by. Hummel .Fishburn, head ,of the music-department; to see their ad visors and schedule Music 77.67 1' credit —today. .... l. LThere are 31. violinists: .-Matiin' Alpeijh,.- F. T. Andretvs,:'Myrtle. Bock, Allan Buechner, K. H. Van D’Eldon, J. :C. Dillard, : Mildred •Dromgoid, / Walter Falkenberg; Jean Farley, Marian': Fister, Jo seph Geiger; Jack Goodoviteh,- Kenneth Gould,’ James: Kalbifus', Barbara. Kriney, George Kryger, Patricia Manson,' Robert. Mar tobana. : Marjorie McDonald, Sybil Per kjri, Ethel. Roberts, Leonard Sea lisp, Jean Schlosser, Ray Schlos ser, Betty Slayman, Marlene Smith, Robert Sturgeon, Gene vieve Taras, Adele Thompson, Herman Weed, and Anne Wisdom. Violists are: George (Barber, Joan Bissey, Christine Diehl, Joan Huber, and Josephine Ro tili. In the ’cello section: Lois Aup, Jean Butler, Margaret Potts, Er nest Rotili, and Herman Slay man. Stringed bass players include: Robert. Burge,- Martin Caldwell, Webster Christman, Marie Halin. Virgil Neilly, Lois Sheaffer, and Marie Thompson. Woodwind players are: Lucille Cox and Edith Muray, flute; Ed na Murray and Esther Thompson, oboe; Robert Skipper and Aptio nettc D’Orasio, clarinet;. and'Ann Berkhimer, bassoon. Brass section consists of trumpet William Laughlin, Jam es Morrow, Creslon Ottemiller, Eugene Sprague; horn. Susan Bissey, Dorothy Cornell, Paul Grove, Marjorie Rex, and Charles Willing; and trombone, Robert Bechtul, fHarold Cook, Linden Fi'-her, and Glenn Orndorf. ’ Percussionists include: Carl fVJtervehn. J'X'lc ; Shatter. Lois Turner, and Frances Woodring. College To Celebrate World Student Day With. Campusßally In 1938 when the Nazi marched into Czechoslovakia, the Czech university students laid down their . books, exchanging them for guns. The Nazi blitzkreig had come too fast for the Czech army to mobilize, so the students fought as well as they could from schools and universities all over the country. On November 17, the Nazi retaliated by a massacre of students at the Charles University in Prague, killing 156 students and sending over 12,000 to concen tration camps inside German^. On November 17, 1942, the first celebration of International Stu dents was held in commemoration of the massacre at Prague. Inter national Student’s Conferences were held at London until Czecho slovakia was liberated. The move ment caught on in the United States and has spread to almost all American colleges and univer sities. This year, International Stu dent’s, Day will be celebrated at the College. A rally sponsored by all the major organizations on (Continued on page three) College Gives Scholarships . The . Consolidated Vultoe Air craft Corporation of San Diego, Calif;,,has. -juit donated funds; to. The". College; to' offer two' scholar ships and one fellowship. The scholarships will be open to highly recommended engineer ing students who have completed their junior year in civil, electri cal, mechanical, or aeronautical engineering and pursuing courses related- to aeronautical engineer ing. . Those appointed will be sent to one of the Corporation’s divi sions for indoctrination, and. ex perience. for . a .period of • three months to a year. . These, men .will be paid at, a' reasonable.rate, at-present $l5O. to. $l6O basepay, for- 40. hours. and-, overtime compensation. At the end of the indoctrination program they will return to. school-to com plete' their senior year. ■ The 'stu dent drill pay- the' regular -tuition and incidental' fees in accordance' with the College regulations. ~r.:- -. The fellowship will-be open to highly-recommended graduates of engineering, •. metallurgy, 1 chem-t istry, physics, or-mathematics who; wall- be nominated toy the College. The . successful candidate will work one year with the Corpora tion, thereby fitting him more' profitably for " graduate study and research. Graduates from a. given school will not necessarily, under take the graduate, work at their alma mater. • Conditions- for application and other details will be announced in the near future: Players Apply Polish To Poor Coward Script By MARTIN LENNIG Guest Critic A Noel Coward drawing room farce requires polish and finessp in the extreme to be effective. A Coward script has laughs but cannot stand alone without good production. Mere voicing of dia logue is not sufficient to hold an audience. In the case of “Blithe Sprit” which was pre sented for the second time by the Penn State Players last Friday and Saturday evenings, the plot was not only improbably ridicu lous, but what there was of it was stretched thin. The production of lust weekend may best.’ bo commented on by going pack to its source and say- Nittany, Key, Vie At Elections 30 Fratern IFC Prexy Announces Record Rushing Season Nearing prewar peaks, 30 fra ternities have pledged a total of 322 men this semester at the close of the formal rushing season, Frank Schneider, IFC president, announced todav. During the summer semester 18 active fraternities reported 136 pledges. Pledges for the individual fra ternities are as follows: ALPHA CHI SIGMA Henry M. Albright Jr., Charles A. Bax ter, Paul Crider, William E. Eich elberger, Robert H. Hufnagle, James A. Kauffman, William E. Laughlin, Fred Nicholas, Glenn W. Oyler, Jake Sweigart, William H. Walter, Caryll R. Whipple. ALPHA GAMMA RHO— Newton Comly, James E. Garrahan. ALPHA PHI DELTA— Anthony E. Biancardi, William J. Celani, Robert S. Civa, Joseph Coppa, Or lando Q. Di Maria-, Edward M. Ghezzi, Paul J. Mazzli, William D. Manfredo, Victor J. Muto, Vincent F. Rocco, James A. Salvero, James L. Scarazzo Jr., Edward E. .Tarul li. ALPHA TAU OMEGA— Richard Bobbins, William Hubbard, Ray mond Jackson, Roy C. Layman, Raymond Kelly, Ralph Schumack, Robert Williams. ... BETA. .SIGMA ..RHO— Ralph D. Cohen; Richard Hoffman, Aaron Jortner;. Jeromo M. Raubfogell, Earl Schaffer, Floyd Selbst, Mark B. Spitz, Joseph Wein, Jack Wolfe, Bernard S. Woolf. . CHI PHl— Robert B. Franks house,-Kenneth Mattern, Richard J. Mauthe, Ted L. Noyes, Robert E. Rose, Robei-t Russell, J. E. St. Clair, George Vadaz. DELTA CHl— Edward J. Hahn, John Hughes Jr., Robert S. Og den-, Alan Uhl, Charles D. Willis. -. (Continued on page seven) AA Office To Distribute Artist Course Priorities Priority numbers • for. the pur chase of Artists’ Course tickets ■ will be distributed by the Athletic Association office, first floor; Old ■Main, tomorrow and. Thursday. ■Students will be'given priority numbers at 4 o’clock tomorrow and may buy tickets Thursday. Facid : ty members and townspepple may call' for/ priority at 4 p.m. Thursday and may buy tick ets Friday. ~ The priority slip wall designate at what time the prospective pur chaser may calf for his ticket and alsa his place in the ticket line. One priority -will entitle a pur chaser to as many as as six seats provided that students buy only student seats and faculty and townspeople buy seats only for themselves. ing: “Hail to thee, ‘Blithe Spir it’ !” From the moment- the curtain parted until the final soliloquy so excellently delivered by Joseph Vispi amid crashing china, fly ing pillows and falling pictures The Players gave an exceptionally well rendered, fast moving pro duction. The set was unusually well, made up. The lighting which called for quite a bit of tricky handling was executed without a noticeable flaw. The “special ef fects” such as table tapping and vase- smashing were mystifyingly well done. Scenes and Setting The scene of the play is set in (Continued on page seven) ities Pledge 322 Col. T. V. Smith . . . who will open the College Community Forum Lecture ser ies in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o’clock tomorrow night. He will speak on “Discipline For A De mocracy.”. • In answer to a petition circu | lated by students last semester, j.ColpnelrSmitb yvill include in his lecture material" on the " current controversy concerning an inter gration of the formal Liberal Arts program. He has served as director of education for the American Military Govedhment in Italy and is now. assisting in the reorientation training of Ger man prisoners. AST To Return 5 Fraternities . Five fraternity houses - will be vacated by the ASTP unit and turned back, to their-, owners ef-. fective. December 10, according to Samuel K. Hostetter, assistant to the president an charge of busi ness arid finance. - Fraternities effected., are Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Sigma -Phi,- Beta Sigma Rho, Delta Sigma Phi, and Phi Kappi <Psi. ; The alumni', ■boards of trustees of each of these fraternities have been notified of the termination of the Army leases. ■Before the houses will be re turned, a committee of three, con sisting of a representative from the Army, the College, and the particular fraternity, will inspect the houses to determine the extent of needed because of mili tary use. Shortly thereafter, work be started to restore the houses, all occupied since June, 1943, to pre-ASTP condition. Samuel Bayard To Speak For LA Lecture Series The first speaker in the Liberal Arts Lecture Series which begins in 1121 Sparks at 8 o’clock tonight will be Prof. Samuel Bayard of the College English composition department. Professor Bayard is a nationally known authority on folk ballads. His topic will be “The Music of Traditional Fifers in Western rensylvania.” The talk will be dramatized by Dr. Ralph C. Wood of the German department who will play various types of folic music on the flute. Lundy, Stapleton, Run For All-College Head 'College elections will take place in the first floor lounge, Old Main, from 9 to 5 o’clock today and' to morrow. Students must present matriculation cards in order to vote. 'Of interest to every voter will be the outcome of competition for All-College offices. Van Lundy and Mary “Pete” Fa loon head the Key ticket, running for All-College president and secretary respective ly. Opposing them are Nittany nominees Vaughn Stapleton and Judd Healy. Candidates for eighth semester posts are Jack Seavy, president. Key, and Raymond Hensler, presi dent, Nittany; Gloria McKinley, secretary, Key, and Eris Hunt singer, secretary, Nittany. Seventh Semester Posts Figuring in the seventh semester l ! ne-up are David Lundy, presi dent, Key; Irwin Monsein, presi dent, Nittany; Jeanne Hirt, secre (Continued on page seven) 80 Compose Blue Band 'Thefollowlfi&'SO persons will report to 117 Carnegie Hall at 7 p.m. tomorrow for the first re hearsal of the Blue Band; • Flute and piccolo: Lucille Cox, ■Robert 'Dunlap, Edith Murray, Otto Pfefferkorn, Nancy Sherriff; oboe: Edna Murray, Esther Thomp son; bassoon: Ann Berkhimer; E flat clarinet: Jo.Rotili. - Alto clarinet: Richard Anderson; bass clarinet: Ernest Rotili; B flat clarinet: Robert Auman, Carol Broberg, Fred Chusid, 'Stanley Cic cone,. Gloria 'Edmunds, Fred Fisch er, Jack Graves, Doris Handwerk, Wayne Hoffman, Michael Horen, Eugene Kashmar, Ralph Kendall. ..Edward SLautner, Abe Levy, Don Mowry, C.,H..Neul,.Francis Ostro .ski, Richard Plesset, Marge Reish-. er, William Rogers, Audrey Ry back, Robert Skipper, W; N.-Wolf ersberger. Alto saxophone: Jack Reeves, Bennie • Slupek, George. Thomas, Doris Zubler; - tenor : saxophone: .John Branigan, Charles. Zoslaw; baritone saxophone: James Men ego; bass saxophone:.Aubrey Vail. ■ Cornet and .trumpet: Jo Broberg, Sobero Chacona,- Helen Dickerson, Frederick Fischer, Paul. Holsler, William .'Laughlin,. James Morrow, Russell Nickerson, Creston Otter miller, 'Steven Raytek, Eugene Sprague, Caryll. Whipple. - French horn: Susan Bissey, Dor othy Cornell, Paul Grove, Margie Rex; .trombone: Robert Bechtol, Harold Cook, Linden Fisher, Mar ion Fleshman, Llewellyn LeVan, Robert Mulligan, Glenn Omdorf; baritone horn: Joan Bissey, Theo dore Harshberger, John Labash. Tuba: Frederick Crane, Wilmer Francis, Robert McLaughlin, John Punton, Herman Weed; percussion: David Boozer, Carl Colteryahn, Norman Phillips, Jack Shatter, Lois Turner, Frances Woodring. Bursar Sets New Date For'Payment of Fees Payment of fees for the fall semester has been postponed until November 28, Bursar Russell E.' Clark announced today. Fees were scheduled to be paid this Friday, but it is impossible to have the statements prepared by the original date, Bursar Clark stated. No estimates for individual stu dents can be made, but a fee es timate blank may be obtained at the Offices of the Bursar, Old Main. With this blank it is pos sible to figure almost the exact amount due. 'E CENTS ~
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